Key Publications

Levels of analysis and explanatory progress in psychology: Integrating frameworks from biology and cognitive science for a more comprehensive science of the mind

Beyond the evolution vs. learning fallacy

A Multi-Level Framework for the Functions of Emotions and Their Expressions

Section 1

Beyond the evolution vs. learning fallacy

Levels of analysis and explanatory progress in psychology: Integrating frameworks from biology and cognitive science for a more comprehensive science of the mind

A Multi-Level Framework for the Functions of Emotions and Their Expressions

Section 2

Food neophobia and disgust, but not hunger, predict willingness to eat insects

Mating strategy, disgust, and food neophobia

The evolutionary psychology of hunger

Section 3

Beyond the evolution vs. learning fallacy

Levels of analysis and explanatory progress in psychology: Integrating frameworks from biology and cognitive science for a more comprehensive science of the mind

Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty?

The Products of Evolution: Conceptual Distinctions, Evidentiary Criteria, and Empirical Examples

Epistemic vigilance in early ontogeny: Children’s use of nonverbal behavior to detect deception

Context, environment, and learning in evolutionary psychology

13 Misunderstandings about Natural Selection

Evolutionary Psychology: A How-To Guide

Constraints on natural selection

Evolutionary personality psychology

Error Management Theory and the Evolution of Cognitive Bias

The Handicap Principle

A Multi-Level Framework for the Functions of Emotions and Their Expressions

Section 4

In obsessive-compulsive disorder, autogenous and reactive obsessions are differentiated by disgust and mating strategies

Nanoassemblies from the aqueous extract of roasted coffee beans modulate the behavioral and molecular effects of smoking withdrawal–induced anxiety in female rats

Positive schizotypy predicts migration intentions and desires

Why do people (not) engage in social distancing? Proximate and ultimate analyses of norm-following during the COVID-19 pandemic

A preliminary study on the role of personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases on self-reported health across countries [90-country study]

I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures [58-country study]

Grandiose narcissism, unfounded beliefs, and behavioral reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic [61-country study]

Agentic collective narcissism and communal collective narcissism: Do they predict Covid-19 pandemic-related beliefs and behaviors? [61-country study]

The fear of COVID-19 scale: its structure and measurement invariance across 48 countries

Section 5

A preliminary study on the role of personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases on self-reported health across countries [90-country study]

I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures [58-country study]

Grandiose narcissism, unfounded beliefs, and behavioral reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic [61-country study]

Agentic collective narcissism and communal collective narcissism: Do they predict Covid-19 pandemic-related beliefs and behaviors? [61-country study]

A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference-matching [43-country study]

Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism [10-country study and 88-country study]

Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves [42-country study]

Family still matters: Human social motivation during a global pandemic [42-country study]

Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries [93-country study]

The fear of COVID-19 scale: its structure and measurement invariance across 48 countries [48-country study]

No support for two hypotheses about the communicative functions of displaying disgust: Evidence from Turkey, Norway, Germany, and Croatia [4-country study]

Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride [16-country study]

The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion [6-country study]

Commonly observed sex differences in direct aggression are absent or reversed in sibling contexts [24-country study]

Cross-cultural data on romantic love and mate preferences from 117,293 participants across 175 countries [175-country study]

How do people maintain consensual non-monogamy (CNM)?: An international development and validation of the Multiple Relationships Maintenance Scale (MRMS)

Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study

Section 6

Human emotions: An evolutionary psychological perspective

Disgust systematically tracks relative levels of pathogen threat, not just presence or absence of pathogens

Thermal psychology: a coordinating mechanisms approach

The evolutionary psychology of hunger

Sex differences in disgust: Why are women more easily disgusted than men?

Evolutionary psychology and the emotions

Social emotions are governed by a common grammar of social valuation: Theoretical foundations and applications to human personality and the criminal justice system

How jealousy works

Shame

Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride [16-country study]

The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion [6-country study]

No support for two hypotheses about the communicative functions of displaying disgust: Evidence from Turkey, Norway, Germany, and Croatia [4-country study]

Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions

A Multi-Level Framework for the Functions of Emotions and Their Expressions

Section 1

Cross-cultural data on romantic love and mate preferences from 117,293 participants across 175 countries [175-country study]

How do people maintain consensual non-monogamy (CNM)?: An international development and validation of the Multiple Relationships Maintenance Scale (MRMS)

Commonly observed sex differences in direct aggression are absent or reversed in sibling contexts [24-country study]

A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference-matching [43-country study]

Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic [42-country study]

Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries [93-country study]

Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism [10-country study and 88-country study]

Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves [42-country study]

Mate preferences in three Muslim-majority countries: Sex differences and personality correlates [3-country study]

Mate competition in Pakistan: Mate value, mate retention, and competitor derogation

The evolved psychology of same- and opposite-sex friendship

Mating activation in opposite-sex friendship as a function of sociosexual orientation and relationship status

Friends and happiness: An evolutionary perspective on friendship

The logic of physical attractiveness: what people find attractive, when, and why

Section 1

Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty?

Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research

An eye tracking study examining the role of mating strategies, perceived vulnerability to disease, and disgust in attention to pathogenic cues

Novel hypotheses based on Error Management Theory

Error Management Theory and the Evolution of Cognitive Bias

Epistemic vigilance in early ontogeny: Children’s use of nonverbal behavior to detect deception

The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion [6-country study]

Section 1

Grandiose narcissism, unfounded beliefs, and behavioral reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic [61-country study]

Agentic collective narcissism and communal collective narcissism: Do they predict Covid-19 pandemic-related beliefs and behaviors? [61-country study]

Mate preferences in three Muslim-majority countries: Sex differences and personality correlates [3-country study]

Positive schizotypy predicts migration intentions and desires

Evolutionary personality psychology